A memorial tribute to my composer friend, Bob Morabito [https://soundcloud.com/bob-morabito]

Elegy For Bob Morabito [2020-21]

Food & family track for the campbells contest complete with some history voiceover and justin timberlake like vocals for the smoothest universal sounding Jingle.

Campbell's Contest - Food & Family

See the score here:
https://issuu.com/utsyochakraborty/docs/chakraborty_paper_theatre

"Paper Theatre, Five dioramas for ensemble" was composed in two and a half weeks in December 2021 for eight instruments. It was conceived as a sequel to my 2019 piece "Shadow Theatre", also for a small mixed ensemble. 

The instrumentation is as follows:
Piccolo (doubling on Flute and Alto Flute)
Oboe (doubling on English Horn)
Trombone
3 Percussion 
Electric Guitar (doubling on Bass Guitar)
Double Bass

My friends, knowing how interested I am "classical music" wanted me to step out of my comfort zone and comment on what they found interesting. They sent me links of a wide variety of music: ranging from the austerity of Carnatic music to the cheesy ease of Bollywood; from the coolness of jazz to the almost unlistenable screams of Metallica. Given how resistive I could (and still can) be to certain stylistic approaches, I decided to forego my preferences and just listen without any expectations. To my surprise, a lot of music was to my liking. However something strange also started to happen during this period of assimilation: I started to think of how I could deal with or manipulate certain aspects of the pieces I heard (namely repetition, rhythm, melodic development, etc.) and integrate them into my interested areas of composition. This gave rise to the piece, which was composed rather quickly. 

There are five scenes, each with its own itinerary: 

1. March Past: a marching band coordinated to a central beat given by the Bass and Congas but each with their localised and improvised quirks; like organised chaos. 

2. Ikebana: an intimate pattern making session by four voices, relying on literal repetition to highlight the gradual harmonic development throughout.

3. Spring Jukebox: Romantic music - an improvised birdsong like introduction which gives rise to a simple (yet sometimes microtonally inflected) melody sung by the piccolo and English Horn, superimposed on an ostinato on the vibraphone. Clockwork like percussion joins in as the song progresses. 

4. Shapeshifter: a piece with shifts and contrasts among three phases, sometimes gradual while sometimes abrupt. It leads directly into the fifth scene. 

5. Rave: a wild, frenetic dance party with an exploration of extreme registers. The chaos eventually ends up being busted by the police.

Paper Theatre - Five Dioramas for ensemble (2022)

Homage à Alain (2008)for Organ I. Introit Nicolas Kingman

One of the infinitely many possible realizations of my Canons for Orchestra, from 2017. 

This version uses 14 solo instruments.

Canons for Orchestra (Realization 2) [2022]

Hommage à Ligeti

A 16-voice, quadruple mensuration canon written as an experiment in synchronized repetition and superimposition of multiple speeds.

Wavemaker, for electronics (2022)

C MAJOR Overture and Celebration🎈

Genre(s): Neo-Baroque

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/XQkNb0PpRAo

A Short Flourish in C

Preludes (for piano) -IV- [2023]

Composed in memory of Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)

Prolifération, in memory of Pierre Boulez (2019)

Translating to "From a tree to the hushed pond", this piece samples a track of water droplets falling and manipulates it electronically to produce this piece. There are essentially three layers in this piece: the first consisting of a long static harmony slowly evolving, the second consisting of point music or rhythmic figures derived from the first layer and the third consisting of the original track of water droplets slowed down by 30% of its original tempo.  

... d'un arbre à un étang tranquille... , for electronics (2020)

I am a composer and pianist excited to showcase my music online. In 2016, I completed my bachelor’s in music studies at USF.

A Short Flourish in C

PAS Henriksen, composer & pianist

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